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Created page with "=====Effect of vitamin C supplements on urinary oxalate and pH in calcium stone-forming patients===== [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0085253815489768 by Alessandra Calábria Baxmann Claudia de O.G. Mendonça Ita Pfeferman Heilberg 3/03/2003 Science Direct ] These data suggest that vitamin C supplementation may increase urinary oxalate excretion and the risk of calcium oxalate crystallization in calcium stone-forming patients." |
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These data suggest that vitamin C supplementation may increase urinary oxalate excretion and the risk of calcium oxalate crystallization in calcium stone-forming patients. | These data suggest that vitamin C supplementation may increase urinary oxalate excretion and the risk of calcium oxalate crystallization in calcium stone-forming patients. | ||
=====The Vitamin C Myth===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/2006/02/02/5184850/the-vitamin-c-myth by Patti Neighmond 2/2/06 npr] | |||
It was Noble Prize Winner Linus Pauling, a chemist, who really popularized vitamin C in the early 60s. He suggested that the vitamin, already known to protect against scurvy, was even more beneficial in mega doses. Dr. Marvin Lipman is an endocrinologist in New York and Chief Medical Advisor for the magazine Consumer Reports. | |||
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Effect of vitamin C supplements on urinary oxalate and pH in calcium stone-forming patients
These data suggest that vitamin C supplementation may increase urinary oxalate excretion and the risk of calcium oxalate crystallization in calcium stone-forming patients.
The Vitamin C Myth
It was Noble Prize Winner Linus Pauling, a chemist, who really popularized vitamin C in the early 60s. He suggested that the vitamin, already known to protect against scurvy, was even more beneficial in mega doses. Dr. Marvin Lipman is an endocrinologist in New York and Chief Medical Advisor for the magazine Consumer Reports.
